--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > snip > > > > I truly don't understand that kind of thinking. > > Resistance to dishonesty should be a *reflex*, an > > instinct. It *should* be an addiction. > > OK. Perhaps I don't fully appreciate how it affects you. Certainly > you have to go the distance in things you believe passionately about.
Actually, one of the very few things I believe passionately in is the value of honesty and the destructiveness of dishonesty. With all the disagreement in the world and all the problems it causes, it seems to me just appalling that it should be complicated and exacerbated by dishonesty. How can we even get to the point of peaceably agreeing to disagree, let alone come to a mutual understanding, if one side is indulging in deliberate falsehood, and that is *tolerated* by others? How can anybody have respect for an opinion that is supported by assertions which are knowingly factually false?
